Sifu wrote:A question: next year the Jays have a limit of $300k. Can they trade for more? Also, do they retain their own slots and are able to trade them away? I.e. do they have slots for say $2 million allocation that they can trade away but can only use say 300k?
The penalty is that they can't pay any player more than $300K, not that they are limited to spending only $300K overall. They still have their full allotted bonus pool and as such can trade slots away, or even acquire slots. For example, if their pool was $2 million, they could sign six guys for $300K each if they wanted to ($1.8 million). The Rays were in penalty this year and they ended up signing four guys for $300K each and another two for "low six figures".